Get and Connect a Disconnected Mailbox Using PowerShell

To quickly find all disconnected Mailboxes in your Exchange environment launch EMC and run the following one liner.

Get-MailboxStatistics -Server ThaLazyExMBX01| 
where { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } 
| select DisplayName,MailboxGuid,Database,DisconnectDate

Get-MailboxStatistics -Server ThaLazyExMBX01|

where { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null }

| select DisplayName,MailboxGuid,Database,DisconnectDate

The Results will look as follow:

Now that we have the results lets refine the search to find a specific “Disconnected Mailbox”

Get-MailboxStatistics -server ThatLazyExMBX01|
Where-object {($_.DisconnectDate -ne $null) -and ($_.DisplayName -eq "Manju")}

1 2	Get-MailboxStatistics -server ThatLazyExMBX01\| Where-object {($_.DisconnectDate -ne $null) -and ($_.DisplayName -eq "Manju")}

The Results will look as follow:

Now that we have the “Disconnected Mailbox” we are looking for so lets go ahead and re-connect the Mailbox.

To reconnect the mailbox run the following one liner

Connect-Mailbox -Database ThatLaxyEXdb07 -Identity "Manju" -User "Manju"

1	Connect-Mailbox -Database ThatLaxyEXdb07 -Identity "Manju" -User "Manju"

and there you go , quick and easy to find and connect a disconnected mailbox using PowerShell.

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